Corrected Report of the Speech of the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate of Scot
Corrected Report of the Speech of the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate of Scot
Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey
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U pon the theory of the Honourable Gentleman opposite, every Peer, with an income of 10, 000. A year, should have a Member to sit in that House to represent him ; and every Com- moner with 20, 000. Should have his Member too; then there would be ensured a proper appendage to rank and opulence, instead of there being, as at pre- sent, a narrow and unjust monopoly of the privilege. There is no doubt, I believe, in any quarter, that property ought to have a large influence in the election of Membe...rs of Parliament. But is it really pretended, either that the proposed Bill will destroy that influence, or that the present system gives a fair or secure scope to it ? That it would not destroy or exclude that in- fluence, seemed to be conceded by the Honourable Member for Callington, when he referred to the in- fluence of the Bedford Family, in Tavistock, and said, " that, after the proposed measure had done its worst, he would still ensure the present Member's Seat for that Borough, for half-a-crown.
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